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Vidya
Bagga
"I
came to England in 1964. I travelled from Bombay to Iraq, by ship,
by sea ship, and then on from there. In Iraq I had a friend who
gave me £25 to buy a ticket, Orient Express that cost me only
£25.
So
with that ticket I travelled all over Europe, and I would get in
any time, any place I like, and get down at any place I like from
that train. It was for one month. It was fantastic, you know what
I had done.
With
the money I had, I would buy bread, honey and butter, so on my way
I saw all the places in Italy, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Switzerland,
so all those places I walked around. I enjoyed my journey so much,
it was really out of the blue, you know, such an interesting journey.
I told
Pushpa my wife, that I would call her in 6 months time. My father-in-law
said, "You got a good job, why you bother to go to England?".
I said "No. I don't like the things here". I remember
her look when she came to see me off at the station, and she was
a little bit apprehensive that I am going away that I will be lost
forever. So I did call her on the 1st of May, and so she came over
here with my youngest daughter."
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